Open Source mashup platform provides easy-to-use infrastructure for building and integrating with social media standards including Activity Streams, OpenSocial, W3C Widgets, and more.

27 mars 2012 10:00:00 ET | Source :The Apache Software Foundation

Forest Hill, MD, March 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer
developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source
projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Rave has
graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project
(TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have
been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and
principles.

Apache Rave is an Open Source software mashup platform that
allows developers to build and engage with an array of social
network technologies such as OpenSocial, Activity Streams, and W3C
Widgets. Rave's lightweight and extensible approach to robust
personalization and collaboration capabilities supports a simple
model for integration across other platforms, services and
solutions.

"Internet social platforms, such as Facebook, Google+, and
Twitter have shaped the expectations of today's users; creating an
onslaught of demand for pervasive social integration within both
consumer and enterprise applications," said Matthew B. Franklin,
Vice President of Apache Rave and Lead Software Engineer at The
MITRE Corporation. "Developers today are constantly faced with the
need to deliver low-cost, scalable, modularized applications with
deep-rooted social capabilities. Apache Rave is the first open
source project chartered to deliver a lightweight, flexible,
widget-based platform to meet these demands."

Apache Rave bundles the efforts of several independent Open
Source initiatives that address similar functionality and
requirements into a single, enterprise-grade platform that easily
scales across federated application integrations, social intranets,
and multi-channel social communities with enhanced personalization
and customized content delivery.

Developed on open standards, Apache Rave is collaboratively
supported by individuals from a wide range of corporations,
non-commercial organizations, and institutes from around the world.
Seeded by code donations from The MITRE Corporation, Indiana
University Pervasive Technology Institute, SURFnet, OSS Watch,
Hippo, and numerous individual developers; interest in Apache Rave
continues, and the Project welcomes new participants to its growing
community.

"Apache Rave takes the good bits from traditional Portals,
leaves out whatever made them so heavy-weight and adds modern web
technologies like OpenSocial, Widgets, Social Networking, Mobile
delivery and Content Services. Rave has already proven to be a
platform not to be underestimated. Hippo is proud to be an
initiator and participant of this project, and plans to make Rave
an integral part of its context-aware content delivery platform",
said Ate Douma, Apache Rave incubating Champion and Chief Architect
for open-source CMS vendor Hippo.

"The Apache Rave project delivers a perfect platform for our
personalized University Portal. Together with SURFnet we hope to
develop, integrate and use all possible OpenSocial aspects to
benefit our Academic community to the fullest," said Sander
Liemberg, Project Manager at the University of Groningen, The
Netherlands.

"As participants in Apache Rave, we are very interested in
applying its capabilities to managing scientific collaborations and
access to computing resources. Rave is also interesting because of
its capacity to be extended by developers: Rave provides a
packaged, out-of-the box experience, but we are also trying to
ensure it is can also serve as a starting point for developers who
wish to extend its capabilities," said Marlon Pierce, Science
Gateway Group Lead at Indiana University and Apache Rave PMC
Member. "In particular, we at Indiana University are taking the
specialized requirements of the National Science Foundation XSEDE
Science Gateway program."

Since entering the Apache Incubator in March 2011, the Apache
Rave project has successfully produced several code releases in
preparation of its first production-ready, v1.0 release. In
addition, Apache Rave recently received an honorable mention in the
2011 Open Source Rookies of the Year awards.

"We are pleased to have been a founding member of the Apache
Rave community and are excited for the future of the project. Rave
will be a cornerstone capability for our internal and external
users, and we look forward to the continued collaboration and
co-development with the community," said Joel Jacobs, Chief
Information Officer, The MITRE Corporation.

Availability and Oversight
Apache Rave software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and
is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the
project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's
day-to-day operations, including community development and product
releases. Apache Rave source code, documentation, mailing lists,
and related resources are available at http://rave.apache.org/

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